Reorientation

Today was a reorientation for me.  I was introduced to the Solarwinds Orion product that D87 is evaluating, instructed to configure it for SMS and/or email alerts about failing interfaces/equipment, and reported my findings so far in IDS/IPS research.  Jason gave a little background on the history of programming and the current state of networking.  He used this to springboard into a rant on OpenFlow and his hatred of IOS.  I finally got a "tour" of the datacenter and spent the rest of the day looking at more IDS options.